Contaminated and Stolen, by Thomas Carnacki

Contaminated and Stolen

by Thomas Carnacki

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Back in January 2005, I was asked by the venerable pirate-radio-slash-installation-project Neighborhood Public Radio for a piece for their special broadcast celebrating copyright infringement and appropriation. (They themselves appropriated the blanket title for their event from Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".)

I was (and still am) very fond of Christoph Heemann's 1997 "Magnetic Tape Splicing" 12", and decided to model my piece after the framework of that fantastic record, but gave myself even greater restrictions: I wouldn't manipulate or process or warble any of my sources. I would only do what could be done on a simple, single reel-to-reel deck, meaning that I could splice, and I could reverse things. I wouldn't layer or mix anything, I would merely collage. "Contaminated and Stolen" was the piece that resulted, the name of which is also, many of you will note, a purloined title, slightly rearranged. I even took chunks of "Magnetic Tape Splicing" and spliced them into the piece, to compound the hall-of-mirrors. ("Steal from the best," so they say.)

Given its nature and origins and substance, it strikes me as absurd to set a price on this, so it's free to download.

Happy April Fools Day. We all need a less-than-serious reprieve every now and again.

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released April 1, 2021

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Thomas Carnacki Berkeley, California

Expect from the world 90% indifference,
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